On 5 September 1977, Voyager 1 was launched. Attached to the side was a gold-coated phonograph record.
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Book References
For discussion of Voyager 1 see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 91, 94-96 (in Chapter 8), 380 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68 (in the entry entitled “Interstellar Communication“), 160 (in the entry entitled “robotics in space”), 219-221 (in the entry entitled “Voyager”), 221-222 (in the entry entitled “Voyager record”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 95 (in Chapter 6) of the Dartmouth hardback edition. |
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Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-193, 205 (in Chapter 15) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27 (in Chapter 1), 208 (in Chapter 6) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 26-27 (in Chapter 2) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 325 (in an entry entitled “Voyager 1 Spacecraft”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
1 |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Brin, David in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in Section 3) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Collins, Jim in his “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 48 (in Chapter 6) of the Raintree hardback edition. |
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Crawford, Ian A in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html |
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Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 450-451 (in the entry entitled “Voyager |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Voyager I”, “Voyager Interstellar record”. The relevant entries are available online, respectively at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/Voyager1.html http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/Voyagerisrecord.html |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210 (in Chapter 8), 241-242 (in Chapter 9), 303-310, 313 (in Chapter 11) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-190 (in Chapter 8) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Drake, Frank in “Science and the Paranormal” (1981) (edited by Abell, George O and Singer, Barry) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 348 (in Chapter 19) of the Junction Books hardback edition. |
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Druyan, Anne in Carl Sagan’s “Billions and Billions” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 229-231, 232 (in the Epilogue) of the Headline softcover edition. |
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Eberhart, Jonathan in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 280-282 (in Chapter 56) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “The World on a Record”, Science News, Volume 112 (1977), pages 124ff. |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-130 (in Chapter 10) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
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Edelson, Robert E in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at page 160 (in Sequence 17) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”). |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69 (in Chapter 2), 171 (in Chapter 6) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 318-319, 322 (in Chapter 16), 378 (in Chapter 19) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 374, 378 (in Chapter 15), 447 (in Chapter 18) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Haining, Peter in his “Eyewitness to the Galaxy: Britain's contribution to research in space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 221 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Uranus and Neptune : The Ends of the Galaxy”) of the WH Allen hardback edition. |
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Halpern, Paul in his “The Quest For Alien Planets” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 249-250 (in Chapter 8) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Hennessey, Roger in his “Worlds Without End : The Historic Search for Extraterrestrial Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 12) of the Tempus hardback edition. |
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Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 174, 177 (in Chapter 7) of the Oxford softcover edition. |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 441 (in an entry entitled “Problem of Noncontact”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 431 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 531 (in an entry entitled “Problem of Noncontact”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13, 14 (in Chapter 1) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Luckman, Michael in his “Alien Rock : The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 304-308 (in the Epilogue) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 5, 6, 11 (in Chapter 1) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 123-124, 125 (in Chapter 8) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Morrison, Philip in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 37-38 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Philip Morrison”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 196 (in Chapter 11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 177-178 (in Chapter 10) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136-137 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition. |
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Poundstone, William in his “Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 231-248 (in the chapter entitled “Ithaca 1977- |
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Price, Robert in his “UFOs Over Hampshire and the Isle of Wight” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in File 9) of the Halsgrove softcover edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-114 (in Chapter 9) of the Granada hardback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 8) of the Fontana paperback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Broca’s Brain” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81 (in Chapter 6), 275 (in Chapter 17) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Contact” (1985) at page 50 (in Chapter 3) of the Legend paperback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “Cosmos“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 316-318 (in Chapter 11), 320 (in Chapter 12) of the Abacus softcover edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97 (in Chapter 5), 142-144 (in Chapter 7) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Alien Life Forms : Sci-Fi Explained” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 4) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 106 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 197 (in Chapter 10) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
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